Alkanes to carboxylic acids in aqueous medium: metal-free and metal-promoted highly efficient and mild conversions.

Chem Commun (Camb)

Centro de Química Estrutural, Complexo I, Instituto Superior Técnico, TU Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal.

Published: May 2009

AI Article Synopsis

  • A new method allows for the transformation of alkanes into carboxylic acids using just CO and water in a single reaction step.
  • This process occurs under mild conditions, doesn't require metal catalysts or acid additives, and operates at low temperatures.
  • Research shows that water plays a crucial part in the reaction, and the mechanisms involved have been studied using advanced techniques like radical-trap experiments and DFT analysis.

Article Abstract

A convenient and clean route to transform, in aqueous medium, various alkanes to carboxylic acids via single-pot carboxylation with CO and water, under mild conditions, has been achieved, proceeding efficiently and selectively even without any metal catalyst and any acid additive, at low temperatures; the relevant hydroxylating role of H(2)O and radical mechanisms are disclosed by radical-trap, H(2)(18)O and DFT studies.

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